October 9
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1855 - The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer (the Singer sewing machine guy) of New York. Thank you, Isaac for keeping us in stitches lo these many years.1855 - Another patent was awarded this day -- to one Joshua C. Stoddard, for the calliope. The Worcester, MA inventor originally sold the colorful and somewhat noisy instrument (it produces 135 decibels, compared to the 100 decibels of sound produced by a jet plane at takeoff) to churches, believe it or not! Sales, however, took off when Stoddard sold the instrument to circuses and steamboat operators (not a bad idea since the calliope is powered by steam).
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between St. Louis and San Francisco became a reality as the first stage pulled into San Francisco. That first trip had begun on Sep 16, 1858 and took 23 days, 23 1/2 hours to complete.
1872 - The first mail order catalog was delivered. It was only one page but it worked. No, it wasn’t the Victoria’s Secret catalog ... nor Land’s End, J. Crew or Lillian Vernon. It was sent out by Mr. Aaron Montgomery Ward of the famous Montgomery Ward catalog and department stores.
1877 - The American Humane Association was founded -- in Cleveland, Ohio.
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to complete a solo transcontinental airplane flight.
1931 - Russ Columbo’s Prisoner of Love was recorded -- on Victor Records.
1935 - Cavalcade of America was first broadcast on radio this very day. The CBS show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway’s most famous stars in leading roles in the half hour radio dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The orchestra (yes, radio shows had live orchestras back then) was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953, changing from CBS to NBC in 1940; with one sponsor for its entire duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of America ... “Better things for better living through chemistry...”
1943 - ABC Radio presented Land of the Lost for the first time. The opening phrase for the show was, “In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea...” This children’s adventure-fantasy serial took the audience underwater where the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and remained on the air until 1948.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale -- for $39.50 -- in Petersburg, VA.
1947 - High Button Shoes, opened on Broadway in New York City with an entertainer named Phil Silvers in the lead. The popular show ran for 727 performances.
1953 - Anne Jeffreys played Marion Kirby, Robert Sterling was George Kirby and the lead character of Topper was played by Leo G. Carroll on CBS-TV. Topper was called the first of the ‘spirit’ shows of the day. Marion and George Kirby had died along with their dog Neil (a St. Bernard) in an avalanche while on a skiing vacation. The three characters returned to their home -- now occupied by Topper. The adventures of the Kirbys, their dog and Topper were quite chaotic and a lot of fun to watch. The story was loosely based on the writings of Thorne Smith.
1958 - Pope Pius XII died, nineteen years after he was elevated to the papacy. (He was succeeded by Pope John the 23rd.)
1963 - A landslide near the Vaiont Dam in Italy caused a flood which killed some 2,500 people. After heavy rains, the huge landslide into the Vaiont reservoir caused the stored water to spill over the dam, sweeping away the village of Longarone and flooding nearby hamlets.
1967 - “And now...heeeeeeeeerrrree’s the Doctor!” Coming out of the NBC Tonight Show Orchestra to become musical director of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson on this night. Doc became famous for an eccentric wardrobe, quick wit, great trumpet solos and fabulous charts. Tommy Newsome became Doc’s backup arranger for many of the tunes the band played. Later, Doc and the band would move to solo albums, group CDs and incredibly successful concert tours. Doc went on to play with various symphony orchestras and even became the owner of a custom trumpet company in the San Francisco Bay Area.
1967 - Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was killed in Bolivia. The Argentinian-born guerrilla leader and revolutionary had been leading a Cuban-sponsored guerrilla force at the time of his death.
1970 - The Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declared itself to be independent.
1973 - Priscilla Presley was divorced from Elvis -- in Santa Monica, CA. ‘Cilla’ got $1.5 million in cash, $4,200 per month in alimony, half interest in a $750,000 home plus about 5% interest in two of Elvis’ publishing companies.
1973 - Speaking of riches, Paul Simon got a gold record this day for his hit, Loves Me like a Rock. The record was Simon’s first million-selling single as a solo artist.
1975 - John Lennon turned 35. To celebrate, Yoko Ono presented John with a newborn son, Sean Ono Lennon.
1979 - Styx released what would become a megahit. Babe hit number one on December 8, 1979.
1980 - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorced French banker and playboy Philippe Junot.
1985 - A 2½-acre garden memorial was dedicated to John Lennon by his widow, Yoko Ono, this day. The memorial in New York City’s Central Park is named Strawberry Fields.
1986 - Joan Rivers debuted her new The Late Show on the fledgling FOX network -- opposite former boss Johnny Carson on NBC. Reportedly, Rupert Murdoch paid up to $25,000 a week for Joan’s lovely gowns. Carson quipped, “The show proves that all that glitters is not watched.”
1987 - Author, politician and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce died in Washington DC. She was 84 years old.
1989 - The San Francisco Giants won the National League championship by defeating the Chicago Cubs.
1990 - David Hackett Souter was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court judge.
1992 - A great meteorite was seen from Kentucky to New York. The event became known as the the Peekskill meteorite and fireball.
1993 - Nirvana’s In Utero was the #1 LP in U.S. The rest of the top five albums for the week: #2-In Pieces, Garth Brooks; #3-Music Box, Mariah Carey; #4-Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, Meat Loaf; #5-River of Dreams, Billy Joel.
1994 - The United States sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf after Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein sent tens of thousands of his elite troops and hundreds of tanks toward the border of Kuwait.
1995 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 shook Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 51 people.
1996 - The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three Americans: David Lee, Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson for their work on liquid helium-3, which they found forms a superfluid at very cold temperatures.
1996 - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Americans Robert F. Curl, Richard E. Smalley and to Briton Harold W. Kroto for their discovery of hollow molecules of carbon called fullerenes or buckyballs first proposed in 1985.
1997 - After 36 seasons, Dean Smith announced his retirement as basketball coach at the University of North Carolina. Smith left with a record of 879-255, including two national championships [1982, 1993] and 13 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament titles. His former players include Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Phil Ford, Billy Cunningham and Charlie Scott.
1998 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Holy Man, starring Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer and Eric Mccormack; and The Mighty, with Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gillian Anderson, Meat Loaf, James Gandolfini and Joe Perrino.
1998 - Ariel Sharon returned to the center of power in Israel. He was appointed foreign minister.
2000 - Arvid Carlsson of Sweden and Americans Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
2001 - Anthrax-laced letters were sent to U.S. Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. The letters later tested positive for anthrax. the deadly letters were postmarked in Trenton, NJ.
2001 - Americans Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, and German-born U.S. resident Wolfgang Ketterle won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
2002 - The European Union’s executive Commission declared Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia nearly ready for EU membership.
2002 - Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) and Vernon L. Smith (George Mason University) won the Nobel prize in Economic Sciences. They were honored for pioneering the use of psychological and experimental economics in decision-making - and for establishing laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.
2003 - England’s Queen Elizabeth II knighted actor Roger Moore and made singer Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
2003 - The peach and blue redesigned U.S. $20 bill made its debut. It was described as, “The most secure currency in U.S. history.”
2004 - Prime Minister John Howard scored a convincing victory in Australia’s federal election, winning a historic fourth term.
2005 - New York U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
2005 - Tropical Storm Vince, the 20th named storm of the season was gaining hurricane strength while heading towards Europe. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the second most active on record.
2005 - Southend Pier (in the East of England), “the world’s longest pleasure pier,” was devastated by fire.
2006 - American Edmund S. Phelps was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his explanation of the relationship between inflation and unemployment.
2006 - Internet search giant Google agreed to acquire YouTube, the video-sharing Web site, for $1.65 billion in stock.
2006 - Computer network pioneer Ray Noorda, founder of Novell corporation, died in Orem, Utah. He was 82 years old and had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
2007 - France’s Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics. The European scientists won for their discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on smaller and smaller hard disks.
2007 - Brewing giants SABMiller and Molson Coors announced an agreement to combine their U.S. operations -- with annual sales of $6.6 billion -- to become the second-biggest market player behind Anheuser-Busch. The new company name: MillerCoors.
2008 - French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. The “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy” made his breakthrough as a novelist with "Desert" in 1980.
2009 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: An Education, starring Peter Sarsgaard, Rosumund Pike, Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams, Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina, Sally Hawkins and Matthew Beard; Bronson, with Tom Hardy, Matt King, Terry Stone, Amanda Burton, Kelly Adams, Jonathan Phillips and Hugh Ross; Couples Retreat, starring Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Jean Reno, Peter Serafinowicz, Kali Hawk and Tasha Smith; Free Style, with Corbin Bleu, Penelope Ann Miller, Madison Pettis, Matt Bellefleur, Grant Langston and Sandra Echeverria; Good Hair:, starring Chris Rock, Ice-T, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, Salt n Pepa, Eve and Reverend Al Sharpton; St. Trinian’s, with Mischa Barton, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey, Caterina Murino, Stephen Fry, Jodie Whittaker, Celia Imrie, Anna Chancellor, Gemma Arterton, comedian Russell Brand and Toby Jones; and The Damned United, starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham and Peter McDonald.
2009 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
2009 - France’s culture minister agreed to return painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted Egypt to cut ties with the Louvre Museum.
2009 - Amnesty International said 37-year-old Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani had been sentenced to death in connection with the unrest in Iran following the disputed June 12 elections. Zamani was convicted of “enmity against God” through membership in a group that sought the end of the Islamic Republic and the establishment of a monarchy.
2010 - Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, acquired a Nevada ranch for use as a wild horse sanctuary. The 14,000-acre Mustang Monument Preserve included grazing rights to 540,000 acres of public land.
2011 - Libya’s revolutionary forces took over a convention center in Sirte that had served as a key base for fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in the fugitive leader’s hometown as the rebels put the squeeze on remaining regime loyalists in the besieged coastal city. And in Bani Walid, advancing fighters drove Gadhafi forces out of the airport.
2012 - 29-year-old Alexis Wright pled not guilty in Portland, Maine to 106 counts of prostitution, violation of privacy, tax evasion and other charges. Prosecutors said Wright provided sex for money at her Zumba fitness studio. (On May 31, 2013 Alexis Wright was sentenced to 10 months in jail in a plea agreement.)
2012 - The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the U.S. for experiments on quantum particles.
2013 - Credit Suisse reported that 35% of household wealth in Russia was owned by just 110 people. It was the highest level of inequality in the world, barring a few small Caribbean islands.
2014 - Patrick Modiano of France won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature. Modiano made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation of, and its effects on, his country. His novel, Missing Person, won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
2014 - A Japanese judge ordered Google to remove search results of a man’s unflattering past in an order the plaintiff’s lawyer compared to Europe’s “right to be forgotten” ruling.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Pan, starring Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller and Jimmy Vee; The Walk, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon and Ben Kingsley; Big Stone Gap, starring Patrick Wilson, Ashley Judd and Jane Krakowski; Breaking Through, with Julie Warner, Robert Roldan and Jordan Rodrigues; Knock Knock, starring Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas; and Ladrones, with Fernando Colunga, Eduardo Yáñez and Miguel Varoni.
2015 - A thousand students and staff staged a rally at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). It was the second demonstration in a week to protest what they said was interference by Beijing in the school’s academic freedom. Two large banners draped from a wall read, “Defend autonomy of the university” and “condemn political interference.”
2016 - Over 2 million homes and businesses were without power after Hurricane Matthew pummeled Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina with heavy rain and wind.
2016 - The Republican and Democratic presidential nominees faced off in the town-hall-style debate at Washington University in St. Louis. This second (of three) presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was tense, with harsh exchanges and accusations. Both candidates demanded apologies from the other for the false birther theory that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, which Trump pedaled for years after first bringing it up before the 2012 election. Clinton attacked Trump, arguing that he “never apologizes for anything to anyone.” “He owes the president an apology, he owes our country an apology, and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words,” she said. But, accusing Clinton’s 2008 campaign of starting the birther conspiracy about Obama, Trump said, “Well, you owe the president an apology because, as you know very well, your campaign’s Sidney Blumenthal — he’s another real winner that you have, and he’s the one that got this started, along with your campaign manager.”
2017 - The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Richard Thaler of the Univ of Chicago’s Booth School of Business: for incorporating a more realistic understanding of human behavior into economic theory.
2017 - Joel Holland (of Sumner, WA) won the 44th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, CA. Holland’s pumpkin weighed 2,363 pounds, was his 7th win, and the second heaviest pumpkin ever grown worldwide.
2017 - Google discovered that Russian operatives had spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on its YouTube, Gmail and Google Search products in an effort to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
2018 - German police arrested a suspect in the rape and killing of a TV journalist from Bulgaria whose work highlighted corruption in the East European country. Severin Krassimirov (21), a Bulgarian citizen, was arrested outside the city of Hamburg. Investigators were said to have found DNA evidence on the clothes and body of Viktoria Marinova, who was raped and murdered in the northern town of Ruse. Investigators spoke to Marinova’s family and friends and concluded that “there is no apparent link to her work.” It appeared to be “a spontaneous attack, not premeditated.”
2018 - Drivers for taxi-sharing app Uber went on strike in Britain, demanding higher fares and improved workers’ rights. The drivers also urged riders not to cross the digital picket line by ordering rides. An example of the deep distrust between strikers and the Uber company was a claim by those involved that Uber had intervened in the app’s pricing algorithm in order to generate an increase in prices to entice drivers to work.
2019 - Paul Petersen, Maricopa County, Arizona Assessor, was indicted for adoption fraud, accused of arranging for dozens of pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to come to the U.S. to give their children up for adoption. Utah also had charged Petersen with 11 felony counts, including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud.
2019 - A long-awaited report, written in 2016, from Chicago’s inspector general was released, detailing the actions of 16 police officers involved in the fatal shooting in 2014 of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The report accuses the officers involved in the shooting of violating policies and giving false statements and misleading characterizations “to exaggerate the threat McDonald posed.”
2019 - POTUS Donald Trump lashed out at sharp bipartisan criticism of his decision to pull back U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, saying he was focused on the “BIG PICTURE” that did not include American involvement in "stupid endless wars" in the Middle East.
2019 - Two foreign-born Florida businessmen associated with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to funnel foreign money to U.S. political candidates. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested in connection with a New York case involving campaign finance laws.
2020 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Honest Thief, starring Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh and Jai Courtney; and The War with Grandpa, starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman and Rob Riggle.
2020 - A federal appelate court ruled that POTUS Trump could not use his emergency powers to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funding to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.
2020 - The World Food Program, a United Nations agency, won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic. The official announcement also said, “With this year’s award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to turn the eyes of the world towards the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger.”
2021 - President Emmanuel Macron said France was launching a campaign for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty. This, as part of France’s presidency of the European Union.
2021 - California became the first state to order large department stores to create gender-neutral areas for the display of products like toys and toothbrushes. The ruling was a win for LGBT advocates who said the pink and blue hues of traditional marketing methods pressured children to conform to gender stereotypes.
2022 - Scientists detected a gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A on this day. They dubbed it the brightest of all time, or BOAT. It was a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole and was a 1 in 10,000 year event.
2022 - Election officials across the U.S. reported stepping up security in response to threats and intimidation by conspiracy theorists who believed the 2020 election was stolen from former POTUS Donald Trump. 15 of 30 election offices surveyed reported that they had increased security with a variety of measures, including bulletproof glass, panic buttons, and extra security guards. And many election offices had trained employees in conflict de-escalation and getting away from active shooters.
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Birthdays on This Day October 9
1886 - Rube (Richard William) Marquard
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Giants [World Series: 1911, 1912, 1913], Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1916, 1920, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves; died Jun 1, 19801890 - Aimee Semple McPherson
evangelist, founder of Foursquare Church; pioneer in the use radio: first woman to preach a radio sermon [on Foursquare Gospel-owned KFSG, Los Angeles]; died Sep 27, 19441891 - Otto Schnering
candy bar mogul: founded Curtiss Candy Co.: Kandy Kake, Baby Ruth, Butterfinger; died Jan 10, 19531903 - Walter O’Malley
baseball executive: owner: Brooklyn/LA Dodgers [World Series: 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965]; [moved Dodgers to LA in 1957]; died Aug 9, 19791905 - Howard St. John
actor: I Died a Thousand Times, L’il Abner, The Tender Trap, Lover Come Back, Hank, The Investigator; died Mar 13, 19741907 - Jacques Tati (Tatischeff)
Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958]; died Nov 4, 19821914 - Edward Andrews
actor: Broadside, Supertrain, Advice and Consent, Elmer Gantry, Sixteen Candles, Tea and Sympathy; died Mar 8, 19851918 - Walter Burkemo
golf champion: PGA [1953]; died Oct 8, 19861923 - Donald Sinden
actor: The Children, The Captain’s Table, Doctor in the House, Simba; died Sep 11, 20141924 - Arnie (Arnold) Risen
Basketball Hall of Famer: Rochester Royals [NBA Championship: 1951], Boston Celtics [NBA Championship: 1957]; died Aug 4, 20121933 - Martin Gottfried
drama critic; author: All His Jazz - The Life and Death of Bob Fosse, Balancing Act - The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury; died Mar 6, 20141940 - John Lennon
singer, songwriter, Beatle: shot to death December 8, 1980
1940 - Joe (Joseph Anthony) ‘Pepi’ Pepitone
baseball: New York Yankees [World Series: 1963, 1964/all-star: 1963, 1964, 1965], Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves1944 - John Entwistle
musician: bass, French horn: group: The Who: My Generation, Happy Jack, Pinball Wizard, See Me, Feel Me; solo: LPs: Smash Your Head Against the Wall, Whistle Rhymes, Rigor Mortis, Mad Dog, Too Late the Hero; died June 27, 20021944 - Freddie (Frederick Joseph) Patek
‘The Flea’: baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals [all-star: 1972, 1976, 1978], California Angels1946 - Bob Haworth
musician: guitar, singer: The Kingston Trio [1985-2005]1947 - George Grove
musician: guitar, singer: The Kingston Trio [1976-2017]1947 - Bob (Robert Ralph) Moose
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971]; died Oct 9, 19761948 - Jackson Browne
songwriter, singer: Doctor My Eyes, Running on Empty, Somebody’s Baby, The Pretender, Lawyers in Love1949 - Martin Imhof
football: San Diego State Univ, SL Cardinals1950 - Brian (Jay) Downing
baseball: Chicago White Sox, California Angels [all-star: 1979], Texas Rangers1951 - Robert Wuhl
Emmy Award-winning writer: The 63rd Annual Academy Awards [1991], The 64th Annual Academy Awards [1992]; actor: A Kiss Goodnight, Cobb, The Bodyguard, Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance1952 - Sharon Osbourne
actress: It’s a Boy Girl Thing, The Osbournes; TV host: The Sharon Osbourne Show; producer: The Osbournes, Name That Dookie, The Osbourne Family Christmas Special, Ozzfest: 10th Anniversary; wife of singer Ozzy Osbourne; more1953 - Tony Shalhoub
Emmy Award-winning actor: Monk, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel; Wings, Addams Family Values, Men in Black series, A Life Less Ordinary, Primary Colors, Galaxy Quest, Spy Kids series, Life or Something Like It, Party Animals, The Great New Wonderful, BrainDead1954 - Scott Bakula
actor: NCIS: New Orleans, Quantum Leap, Murphy Brown, Gung Ho, Eisenhower & Lutz, Lord of Illusions, The Invaders, Color of Night, Necessary Roughness, Sibling Rivalry, The Last Fling, American Beauty, Star Trek: Enterprise, Chuck, Men of a Certain Age1954 - John O’Hurley
actor: Seinfeld; TV host: Family Feud [2006-2010]1958 - Michael Paré
actor: Village of the Damned, Raging Angels, Solar Force, Point of Impact, Into the Sun, Dragonfight, Killing Streets, Women’s Club, Space Rage, The Philadelphia Experience, Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers, Houston Knights, The Greatest American Hero1958 - Mike Singletary
Pro Football Hall-of-Famer: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: Super Bowl XX; UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year [1984, 1985]1960 - Kenny Garrett
Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist and flautist: LPs: 5 Paddle Wheel, Black Hope, Songbook, Standard of Language, Old Folks1964 - Guillermo del Toro
Academy Award-winning film director: The Shape of Water [2018]; Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Devil’s Backbone, Mimic, Blade II, Crimson Peak1966 - David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [2010-2016], First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Conservative Party; Leader of the Opposition [2005-2010]1967 - Eddie Guerrero
pro wrestler/actor: WCW Monday Nitro, Raw is War, WWF Judgement Day, Armageddon, WWF No Way Out; died Nov 13, 20051969 - Steve McQueen
film director: 12 Years a Slave, Hunger, Shame1970 - Kenny Anderson
basketball [guard]: Georgia Tech Univ; NBA: New Jersey Nets, Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers1970 - Annika Sörenstam
golf champ: won 69 official LPGA tournaments, including 10 majors with 14 top-ten finishes; earnings of over $20 million; more1973 - Jennifer Aspen
actress: Larry the Cable Guy’s Star-Studded Christmas Extravaganza, Family Man, L.A. Twister, See Jane Run, The Others, Sometimes They Come Back... Again1973 - Todd Fordham
football: Florida State Univ; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers1975 - Sean Lennon
singer: Into the Sun, Sean’s Theme; actor: Moonwalker; son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono1975 - Tony Tuzzolino
hockey [right wing]: New York Rangers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Boston Bruins1979 - Brandon Routh
actor: Superman Returns, Chuck, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Crooked Arrows, Unthinkable, Legends of Tomorrow1980 - Henrik Zetterberg
hockey [left winger]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [2002-2018]; 2008 Stanley Cup champs1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan
actor: Home Improvement, Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter, Held for Ransom1981 - Darius Miles
basketball: LA Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers1982 - Colin Donnell
actor: Arrow, The Affair, Every Secret Thing, Chicago Med; Broadway: Jersey Boys, Anything Goes, Holiday Inn1983 - Spencer Grammer
actress: Greek, 2 Br/1 Ba, Ironside [2013], Missing William, As the World Turns; daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer1992 - Tyler James Williams
actor: Whiskey Cavalier, The Wedding Year, Everybody Hates Chris, Let It Shine, The Walking Dead, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders1993 - George Kittle
football [tight end]: NFL: San Francisco 49ers [(2017– ]: 2020 Super Bowl LIV1993 - Scotty McCreery
singer: Five More Minutes, This Is It, In Between, See You Tonight, You Time, Damn Strait; won the tenth season of American Idol1994 - Jodelle Micah Ferland
actress: Silent Hill, Kingdom Hospital, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Mighty Fine, Midnight Rider, The Cabin in the Woods1996 - Jacob Batalon
actor: Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Every Day1997 - Bella Thorne
actress: Dirty Sexy Money, My Own Worst Enemy, Shake It Up, Blended, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, The Babysitter film series, The DUFF, Amityville: The Awakening, Infamous, Famous in Love
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Hit Music on This Day October 9
1946To Each His Own (facts) - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More (facts) - Tex Beneke
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